January/February 2013 | The Walrus

Feature / January/February 2013

Rough Justice

January 24, 2013August 24, 2017 - by Daniel Baird

Locking up offenders does little to prevent crime or make us safer. The history behind our impulse to punish

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Photograph by Derek Shapton

Feature / January/February 2013

Critical Mass

January 10, 2013August 5, 2016 - by Katherine Ashenburg

Writer Terry Poulton found the secret to a happy, healthy life in her plus-sized body. Will the “obesity epidemic” finally force the rest of us to confront our fear of fat?

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Illustration by Selena Wong

Fiction / January/February 2013

Seal

December 31, 2012June 13, 2017 - by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

Igrew up in a city of many small neighbourhoods that functioned as islands, close enough to transmit their specific and distinct pulses, one to the next, in such a way …

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January/February 2013 / Poetry

Souvenir

December 31, 2012June 22, 2016 - by Jeramy Dodds

Which is French for “beneath veneer,” this title or my marriage? To remember is to become a card-carrying member of the past for as long as it takes to re-elect …

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First Person / January/February 2013

Queue Tips

December 31, 2012July 6, 2017 - by Daina Lawrence

Embedded at a New Year’s Day levee in Prince Edward Island

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January/February 2013 / Society

Survivors

December 31, 2012August 28, 2017 - by Tabatha Southey

Revisiting the wedding of the love rat and the adultress

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January/February 2013 / Politics

The Emancipation Question

December 24, 2012July 16, 2019 - by One of the Sons of Ham

(To the Editor of the Globe)

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Allen Fraser/Courtesy of Pier 21 Films Ltd.

Film / January/February 2013

Jack in the Box

December 24, 2012April 5, 2017 - by John Semley

The popular NDP leader has been dead for barely a year. Is it too soon for a biopic?

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McKesson Presents The Walrus Talks The Future of Consumerism (Toronto) @ Artscape Daniels Launchpad

Sep 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

	Presents The Walrus Talks The Future of Consumerism
	Exploring trends and innovations in health care, technology, and more
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Featuring:
Onur Bodur, professor of marketing, Concordia University
Zayna Khayat, futurist, SE Health
Rebecca McKillican, CEO, Well.ca
Craig Patterson, editor-in-chief, Retail Insider

And more!

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CIFAR Presents The Walrus Talks Boundaries (National Capital Region, Gatineau) @ Canadian Museum of History

Sep 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

	Presents The Walrus Talks Boundaries
	How divisions shape our lives, what lies between borders, and what membership means now
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Keith Banting, Stauffer Dunning Fellow and Professor Emeritus, Queen’s University

Samra Habib, writer, photographer, and activist

Adrian Owen, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging, University of Western Ontario, and Koerner Fellow and Co-Director, Azrieli Program in Brain, Mind & Consciousness, CIFAR

Paige Raibmon, Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia

Prerna Singh, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Brown University

Mary Soderstrom, writer

And more!

CIFAR is a Canadian-based, global charitable organization that convenes extraordinary minds to address science and humanity’s most important questions.

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	Présente The Walrus Talks — frontières
	Comment les divisions définissent-elles notre vie? Qu’est-ce qui se trouve entre les limites? Que signifie maintenant l’appartenance à un groupe?
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Les conférenciers seront annoncés prochainement!

Le CIFAR est une organisation sans but lucratif basée au Canada qui rassemble de brillants cerveaux pour trouver réponse aux plus grandes questions de la science et de l’humanité.

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Suncor Presents The Walrus Talks Energy (Montreal) @ Centre Phi

Sep 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

	Presents The Walrus Talks Energy
	Building a Canadian approach to energy transition
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Featuring:
Shawn McCarthy, journalist
Eryn Stewart, project director, Lumos Energy
Brendan Haley, policy director, Efficiency Canada
Aisha Bukhari, senior manager, Advanced Energy Centre, MaRS Discovery District
Johanne Gélinas, president and CEO, Transition Énergétique Québec
Christopher Ragan, academic, economist, and chair of Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission
Alison Cretney, managing director, Energy Futures Lab

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French simultaneous translation services will be provided.
To provide a fragrance-free event, we request that attendees refrain from wearing colognes, perfumes or other scented or chemical products to The Walrus Talks.
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TD Bank Group Presents The Walrus Talks Inclusion (Waterloo) @ Waterloo Delta Hotel

Oct 23 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

	Presents The Walrus Talks Inclusion
	How design, technology, education and more can remove barriers for people with disabilities
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